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Rain Bosworth studies how deaf children experience the world

Meghan Rosen is a staff writer who reports on the life sciences for Science News. She...

Will stashing more CO2 in the ocean help slow climate change?

The ocean is Earth’s climate hero. For decades, ocean waters have helped hold back the juggernaut of...

‘Humanity’s spacecraft’ Voyager 1 is back online and still exploring

After months of challenging trouble-shooting and suspenseful waiting, Voyager 1 is once again talking to Earth. The...

Noise pollution can harm birds even before they hatch

The raucous din of modern life can seriously mess with animals (SN: 2/9/15). Traffic noise can drown...

Rat cells grew in mice brains, and helped sniff out cookies

What does it feel like to be a rat? We will never know, but some very unusual...

Newfound ‘altermagnets’ shatter the magnetic status quo 

For the first time in nearly a century, physicists have identified a brand new type of magnetic...

How NASA Repaired Voyager 1 From 15 Billion Miles Away

Engineers have partially restored a 1970s-era computer on NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft after five months of long-distance...

Pelvic exams at hospitals require written consent, new U.S. guidelines say 

Meghan Rosen is a staff writer who reports on the life sciences for Science News. She...

A new method of making diamonds doesn’t require extreme pressure 

Diamonds in nature famously form under immense pressure in Earth’s mantle. But a new laboratory technique...

Doctors Combined a Heart Pump and Pig Kidney Transplant in Breakthrough Surgery

A 54-year-old New Jersey woman has become the second living person to receive a genetically engineered pig...

A vaccine for bees has an unexpected effect

WASHINGTON — The first vaccine designed for insects may make honeybees healthier overall. Honeybee hives vaccinated against...

Glowing octocorals have been around for at least 540 million years

More than half a billion years ago, the deep, dark ocean was aglow with the eerie light...
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